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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,798 Views
16 Pages

29 December 2022

Positive mathematical programming (PMP) has a substantial number of applications in the field of agricultural and resource economics. Their focus has often been placed on the simulation analysis of farmers’ response to drastic changes in exogen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,320 Views
17 Pages

Response Times Reconstructor Based on Mathematical Expectation Quotient for a High Priority Task over RT-Linux

  • Diana L. González-Baldovinos,
  • Pedro Guevara-López,
  • Jose Luis Cano-Rosas,
  • Jorge Salvador Valdez-Martínez and
  • Asdrúbal López-Chau

2 January 2022

Every computer task generates response times depending on the computer hardware and software. The response times of tasks executed in real-time operating systems such as RT-Linux can vary as their instances evolve even though they always execute the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,938 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2024

Possibility and probability are the two aspects of uncertainty, where uncertainty represents the ignorance of a given individual. The notion of alternative (or event) belongs to the domain of possibility. An event is intrinsically subdivisible and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,734 Views
13 Pages

An Investigation of High School Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Teaching Mathematics

  • Winston Hendricks,
  • Babawande Emmanuel Olawale and
  • Khalid Saddiq

19 November 2024

The influential theory proposed by Bandura suggests that teachers with high self-efficacy—those who strongly believe in their abilities—are more likely to effectively enhance learners’ performance. Numerous studies have consistently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
960 Views
13 Pages

14 September 2024

By utilizing the properties of positive definite matrices, mathematical expectations, and positive linear functionals in matrix space, the Kantorovich inequality and Wielandt inequality for positive definite matrices and random variables are obtained...

  • Article
  • Open Access
475 Views
20 Pages

The concept of cost, defined as the perceived negative consequences of engaging in a task, is an important yet understudied component of the expectancy–value theory of student motivation. In this study, we examined the multidimensional cost str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,021 Views
15 Pages

21 March 2022

The retailer cannot often identify consumers’ preference for personalized and refined services. This poses a lower service than the consumer expects, which will lead to a decline in consumers’ satisfaction and loyalty. To cope with this p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,569 Views
19 Pages

20 February 2024

Despite the obvious progress made by the Feynman, Ravndal, and Kislinger relativistic model in describing the internal motion of a system with confinement of quarks in a nucleon, it turned out to be insufficiently realistic for a number of reasons. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,252 Views
21 Pages

Modeling COVID-19 with Uncertainty in Granada, Spain. Intra-Hospitalary Circuit and Expectations over the Next Months

  • José M. Garrido,
  • David Martínez-Rodríguez,
  • Fernando Rodríguez-Serrano,
  • Sorina-M. Sferle and
  • Rafael-J. Villanueva

17 May 2021

Mathematical models have been remarkable tools for knowing in advance the appropriate time to enforce population restrictions and distribute hospital resources. Here, we present a mathematical Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,565 Views
17 Pages

Bovine HOXA11 Gene Identified from RNA-Seq: mRNA Profile Analysis and Genetic Variation Detection Using ME Method and Their Associations with Carcass Traits

  • Yangming Huang,
  • Kejing Zhang,
  • Yafang Li,
  • Sihuan Zhang,
  • Zhanerke Akhatayeva,
  • Fugui Jiang,
  • Enliang Song and
  • Xianyong Lan

8 February 2023

The Homeobox A11 (HOXA11) gene regulates limb skeletal development and muscle growth, thus, it was selected as a candidate gene for bovine carcass traits. In this study, we analyzed the mRNA expression level of HOXA11 in various tissues and cells, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,346 Views
20 Pages

Authentic practice in pedagogical approaches is essential for preparing teachers to design effective learning experiences that foster student engagement during this digital era. There is an opportunity to explore novel and effective designs of virtua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,743 Views
19 Pages

Advanced Expected Tail Loss Measurement and Quantification for the Moroccan All Shares Index Portfolio

  • Marouane Airouss,
  • Mohamed Tahiri,
  • Amale Lahlou and
  • Abdelhak Hassouni

In this paper, we have analyzed and tested the Expected Tail Loss (ETL) approach for the Value at Risk (VaR) on the Moroccan stock market portfolio. We have compared the results with the general approaches for the standard VaR, which has been the mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,938 Views
15 Pages

28 June 2022

To successfully finalize projects and attain their determined purposes, it is indispensable to control all success criteria of a project. The time–cost trade-off (TCT) is known as a prevalent and efficient approach applied when the planned fini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,530 Views
22 Pages

27 November 2023

This article proposes a method for determining the p-value of correlations in compositional data, i.e., those data that arise as a result of dividing original values by their sum. Data organized in this way are typical for many fields of knowledge, b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,382 Views
35 Pages

Assessment of the Association Between Industrial Production Indicators and Business Expectations: Implications for Sustainable Economic Development

  • Serhii Kozlovskyi,
  • Oleksandr Dluhopolskyi,
  • Volodymyr Kozlovskyi,
  • Anna Sabat,
  • Tomasz Lechowicz,
  • Ivan Zayukov and
  • Larysa Oliinyk

11 November 2025

Economic development and its sustainability are influenced not only by material, human, financial, and intellectual factors, but also by psychological factors. In particular, the levels of business expectations, trust, and confidence significantly af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,183 Views
21 Pages

Inference and Local Influence Assessment in a Multifactor Skew-Normal Linear Mixed Model

  • Zeinolabedin Najafi,
  • Karim Zare,
  • Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi,
  • Soheil Shokri and
  • Amir Mosavi

8 August 2022

This work considers a multifactor linear mixed model under heteroscedasticity in random-effect factors and the skew-normal errors for modeling the correlated datasets. We implement an expectation–maximization (EM) algorithm to achieve the maxim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,767 Views
38 Pages

Optimisation of Time-Varying Asset Pricing Models with Penetration of Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall

  • Adeel Nasir,
  • Kanwal Iqbal Khan,
  • Mário Nuno Mata,
  • Pedro Neves Mata and
  • Jéssica Nunes Martins

17 February 2021

This study aims to apply value at risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES) as time-varying systematic and idiosyncratic risk factors to address the downside risk anomaly of various asset pricing models currently existing in the Pakistan stock exchange....

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,424 Views
18 Pages

22 March 2023

Dynamic mathematics software, such as GeoGebra, is one of the most important teaching and learning media. This kind of software can help teachers teach mathematics, especially geometry, at the elementary school level. However, the use of dynamic math...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,464 Views
21 Pages

23 September 2023

The current study aimed to explore alternative motivational profiles of high achievers in Mathematics, within the framework of the Situated Expectancy-Value Theory. Furthermore, it aimed to examine the profiles’ potential differences in relatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,055 Views
27 Pages

2 March 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has attracted attention in education as a tool to help college students learn mathematics. This study analyzed the factors influencing their use of GAI by applying the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,024 Views
22 Pages

13 October 2023

Prevision bundles identifying expected returns on risky assets are established. A probability space associated with risky assets is defined. In this research work, the optimization principle is based on the notion of distance. This is because problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,492 Views
18 Pages

Factors Affecting the Use of Digital Mathematics Textbooks in Indonesia

  • Tommy Tanu Wijaya,
  • Ying Zhou,
  • Tony Houghton,
  • Robert Weinhandl,
  • Zsolt Lavicza and
  • Farrah Dina Yusop

25 May 2022

Digital mathematics textbooks differ from traditional printed textbooks in, among other things, their dynamic structural elements, representing a potential that traditional textbooks cannot fulfil. Notably, dynamic structural elements, i.e., multimod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,624 Views
12 Pages

21 July 2016

Deduplication is an efficient data reduction technique, and it is used to mitigate the problem of huge data volume in big data storage systems. Content defined chunking (CDC) is the most widely used algorithm in deduplication systems. The expected ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
9,891 Views
20 Pages

Applying the UTAUT Model to Understand Factors Affecting Micro-Lecture Usage by Mathematics Teachers in China

  • Tommy Tanu Wijaya,
  • Yiming Cao,
  • Robert Weinhandl,
  • Eri Yusron and
  • Zsolt Lavicza

22 March 2022

In the last decade, micro-lectures have been widely used to teach mathematics, but only a few studies have examined the factors affecting teachers’ intentions of using micro-lectures. As teachers are key to integrating modern technologies such as mic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,581 Views
25 Pages

20 December 2023

Financial time series and other human-driven, non-natural processes are known to exhibit fat-tailed outcome distributions. That is, such processes demonstrate a greater tendency for extreme outcomes than the normal distribution or other natural distr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,593 Views
18 Pages

Analogy belongs to the class of concepts notorious for a variety of definitions generating continuing disputes about their preferred understanding. Analogy is typically defined by or at least associated with similarity, but as long as similarity rema...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,277 Views
15 Pages

23 March 2021

This paper reflects on UK mathematics education following the poor performance in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) metric, which compares reading, science, and mathematics across 27 countries. We compared a range of features...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,351 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2021

In this paper, we provide a mathematical and statistical methodology using heteroscedastic estimation to achieve the aim of building a more precise mathematical model for complex financial data. Considering a general regression model with explanatory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,195 Views
42 Pages

A Dynamic CGE Model for Optimization in Business Analytics: Simulating the Impact of Investment Shocks

  • Ana Medina-López,
  • Montserrat Jiménez-Partearroyo and
  • Ángeles Cámara

22 December 2023

This study formulates a mathematical dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model within a rational expectations framework, adhering to neo-classical principles. It emphasizes the significant role of agents’ expectations in determining th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,133 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2024

This paper studies the exponential stability in the mean square of the stochastic complex networks with time-varying coupling under an intermittent dynamic event-triggered control. A dynamic term and an exponential function are introduced into the ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,702 Views
19 Pages

26 October 2021

This qualitative study investigated 17 preservice teachers’ lesson design for teaching multiplication to an average performing student and a student with mathematical learning disabilities (MLD). Findings reveal how preservice teachers differentiate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,239 Views
24 Pages

#Mathathome during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring and Reimagining Resources and Social Supports for Parents

  • Frances K. Harper,
  • Joshua M. Rosenberg,
  • Sara Comperry,
  • Kay Howell and
  • Sierra Womble

5 February 2021

During the COVID-19 pandemic, schools abruptly transitioned to emergency remote instruction. Consequently, expectations for parental involvement in school mathematics rose to unprecedented levels. We sought to understand the experiences of parents to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,731 Views
16 Pages

Identification of High-Order Nonlinear Coupled Systems Using a Data-Driven Approach

  • Rodolfo Daniel Velázquez-Sánchez,
  • Jonathan Omega Escobedo-Alva,
  • Raymundo Peña-García,
  • Ricardo Tapia-Herrera and
  • Jesús Alberto Meda-Campaña

30 April 2024

Most works related to the identification of mathematical nonlinear systems suggest that such approaches can always be directly applied to any nonlinear system. This misconception is greatly discouraging when the obtained results are not expected. Thu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,546 Views
14 Pages

1 April 2020

To improve the sustainable development of minority education and ensure equitable quality education, this study explored student- and school-related factors linked to the mathematics achievement of minority senior high school students in China. Based...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
6,172 Views
22 Pages

Fractional Derivatives and Integrals: What Are They Needed For?

  • Vasily E. Tarasov and
  • Svetlana S. Tarasova

25 January 2020

The question raised in the title of the article is not philosophical. We do not expect general answers of the form “to describe the reality surrounding us”. The question should actually be formulated as a mathematical problem of applied m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,211 Views
9 Pages

27 April 2023

In this paper, we discuss the images of mathematics and its teaching, as expressed by mathematics teachers, in reaction to educational programs broadcasted by Polish public television channels during the first lockdown in 2020. For our analysis, we d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,788 Views
22 Pages

Optimization Analysis of Overlap Ratio in Wide and Heavy Plate Slitting Shear

  • Yachu Liao,
  • Wei Fang,
  • Jiahui Li,
  • Zhang Dang,
  • Meng Li and
  • Wenbin Shi

28 June 2023

In studying planar multi-bar mechanisms with multiple degrees of freedom, mathematical modeling is undoubtedly a way to get closer to the expected trajectory. Compared with the analytical method, the optimization method has higher accuracy in solving...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,642 Views
11 Pages

Success in Mathematics and Academic Wellbeing in Primary-School Students

  • Susana Rodríguez,
  • Bibiana Regueiro,
  • Isabel Piñeiro,
  • Antonio Valle,
  • Benigno Sánchez,
  • Tania Vieites and
  • Carolina Rodríguez-Llorente

The main aim of this study was to analyse possible differences in academic wellbeing on the basis of prior academic achievement in mathematics. We conceptualised wellbeing as a multidimensional construct covering both negative indicators, namely, anx...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,060 Views
18 Pages

Prospective Primary Teachers’ Didactic-Mathematical Knowledge in a Service-Learning Project for Inclusion

  • Teresa F. Blanco,
  • Alejandro Gorgal-Romarís,
  • Cristina Núñez-García and
  • Pablo G. Sequeiros

19 February 2022

An analysis of the didactic-mathematical knowledge put into play by a sample of 30 prospective primary teachers during their participation in a Service-Learning program focused on mathematical stimulation as a measure of attention to adolescents at r...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,650 Views
5 Pages

Local mathematics consists of a collection of mathematical systems located at each space and time point. The collection is limited to the systems that include numbers in their axiomatic description. A scalar map between systems at different locations...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,850 Views
24 Pages

29 February 2020

In the past decades, many studies have examined the nature of the interaction between mycotoxins in biological models classifying interaction effects as antagonisms, additive effects, or synergisms based on a comparison of the observed effect with th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,569 Views
14 Pages

The Effects of Attitudes towards Mathematics and STEM Education on High-Ability Students and a Community Sample

  • Elena Rodríguez-Naveiras,
  • Sergio Chinea,
  • Triana Aguirre,
  • Nathalia Manduca,
  • Teresa González Pérez and
  • África Borges

29 December 2023

Mathematic proficiency has long been associated with the male gender and with high levels of intelligence. Similarly, STEM careers have been linked to the male gender, so both ideas are central to the present article. This study aims to observe diffe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,336 Views
28 Pages

On the Importance of Non-Gaussianity in Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging

  • Angelina El Ghaziri,
  • Nizar Bouhlel,
  • Natalia Sapoukhina and
  • David Rousseau

16 January 2023

We propose a mathematical study of the statistics of chlorophyll fluorescence indices. While most of the literature assumes Gaussian distributions for these indices, we demonstrate their fundamental non-Gaussian nature. Indeed, while the noise in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,755 Views
24 Pages

26 September 2024

The PISA 2022 literacy assessment highlights a significant decline in math performance among most OECD countries, with the magnitude of this decline being approximately three times that of the previous round. Remarkably, Hong Kong, Macao, Taipei, Sin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,346 Views
46 Pages

18 November 2024

In physics, we construct idealized mathematical models in order to explain various phenomena which we observe or create in our laboratories. In this article, I recall how sophisticated mathematical models evolved from the concept of a number created...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,975 Views
19 Pages

How Micro-Lectures Improve Learning Satisfaction and Achievement: A Combination of ECM and Extension of TAM Models

  • Peijie Jiang,
  • Tommy Tanu Wijaya,
  • Mailizar Mailizar,
  • Zulfah Zulfah and
  • Astuti Astuti

21 September 2022

This study aimed to examine the potential of micro-lectures as effective technology-based learning media in mathematics. It proposed a hypothesis that using micro-lectures affects learning satisfaction and achievement in mathematics. Data were collec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
790 Views
25 Pages

The objective of this investigation is to obtain numerical solutions for a variety of mathematical models in a wide range of disciplines, such as chemical kinetics, neurosciences, nonlinear optics, metallurgical separation/alloying processes, and ass...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,368 Views
5 Pages

8 November 2012

The knowledge of the universe as a whole, its origin, size and shape, its evolution and future, has always intrigued the human mind. Galileo wrote: “Nature’s great book is written in mathematical language.” This new journal will be devoted to both as...

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